How many blokes at Haynes does it take to change a light bulb? None. The girls have beaten them to it. They've also fixed the leaky tap put up the shelves tiled the kitchen insulated the loft & changed the oil in the car
- all without damaging their nails. Presented in a contemporary fashionable style (not too much pink but certainly a bit) & written in a chatty way (with the occasional 'man' joke) the Women's DIY Manual" will give all the girls the information they need for general household DIY. In true Haynes style there is clear step-by-step photography & easy-to-follow instructions with difficulty ratings for each project."
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Women's lives have traditionally gone unrecorded in history. But housewives factory girls & servants all had their own distinctive voices & if you know where to look there are plenty of sources to explore. Jennifer Newby's guide to women's social history between 1800 & 1939

Includes:: essential starting points for research. A useful handbook for family historians as well as an engaging read for social history lovers each chapter focuses on a different group with suggestions for further reading & a helpful timeline. Compare the lives of factory workers middle-class women domestic servants criminals aristocrats & agricultural labourers. Hear the voices of obscure women alongside those of celebrities
- from rebellious servant Hannah Cullwick to daring aristocrat Lady Colin Campbell prostitute Ellen Reece & bored middle-class daughter Katherine Chorley. If you want to trace female ancestors or simply discover more about how women lived in the past then this book is ideal to help you get started with your own research.


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Wonder" is the funny sweet & incredibly moving story of Auggie Pullman. Born with a terrible facial abnormality this shy bright ten-year-old has been home-schooled by his parents for his whole life in an attempt to protect him from the stares & cruelty of the outside world. Now for the first time Auggie is being sent to a real school
- & he's dreading it. The thing is Auggie's just an ordinary kid with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them underneath it all? Through the voices of Auggie his big sister Via & his new friends Jack & Summer " Wonder" follows Auggie's journey through his first year at Beecher Prep. Frank powerful warm & often heart-breaking " Wonder" is a book you'll read in one sitting pass on to others & remember long after the final page."
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My name is August. I wont describe what I look like. Whatever youre thinking its probably worse. Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things
- eating ice cream playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary
- inside. But ordinary kids dont make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids arent stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now for the first time hes being sent to a real school
- & hes dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted
- but can he convince his new classmates that hes just like them underneath it all? Wonder" is a funny frank astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting pass on to others & remember long after the final page."



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A deft parody of the American fame factory & a piercing portrait of young & old desire WONDER BOYS is a modern classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY. Grady Tripp is an over-sexed pot-bellied pot-smoking ageing wunderkind of a novelist now teaching creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while working on his 2 000-page masterpiece WONDER BOYS. When his rumbustious editor & friend Terry Crabtree arrives in town a chaotic weekend follows
- involving a tuba a dead dog Marilyn Monroes ermine-lined jacket & a squashed boa constrictor. A novel of elegant imagination bold humour & undeniable warmth WONDER BOYS firmly established Michael Chabon as a force to be reckoned with in American fiction.
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Professor Brian Cox is probably the best-known physicist in the world today. As presenter of the hit television series Wonders of the Solar System & Wonders of the Universe his affable charm & infectious enthusiasm has brought science to a whole new audience. Born in Lancashire in 1968 Cox was a bright but not brilliant pupil at school
- only receiving a D grade for A level mathematics. He flourished at university however gaining a first-class honours degree & an MPhil in Physics from Manchester University before being awarded his Ph D in particle physics in 1998. Alongside his studies he also found time to play keyboards for the band D: Ream & the band topped the charts in 1994 with ' Things Can Only Get Better' which was famously used by the Labour Party for its 1997 election campaign. Although he has appeared in several television shows Brian Cox is not just a celebrity presenter
- he is a Royal Society University Research Fellow a professor at the University of Manchester & he also works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerl&. In 2010 he was awarded an OBE for his services to science & he has also won several awards for his television work.

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Hippolyta Queen of the Amazons has kept a secret from her daughter all her life
- & when Wonder Woman learns who her father is
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Wonder Woman goes to hell! After playing Poseidon Hades & Hera against each other Hades strikes back by kidnapping Zola & trapping her in the Underworld. Its up to Wonder Woman
- with a little help from the God of Love & the God of Smiths
- to break Zola out. But what is Hades real game & once you get into the land of the dead how exactly do you get out? Collects Wonder Woman 7-12.

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What three millennia of human history can tell us about how to live today. There are many ways to try to improve our lives
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This is a collection of the best predictions made by Popular Mechanics" writers between 1903 & 1969. It features original visually stunning artwork & a free poster. Each chapter is introduced by astrophysics professor & former NASA advisor Gregory Benford. Between 1903 & 1969 scientists & other experts made hundreds of predictions in " Popular Mechanics" about what the future would hold. Here are the very best of them complete with the original visually stunning retro art plus chapter introductions by astrophysics professor science-fiction author & former NASA advisor Gregory Benford." ...